Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 6/11/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I brought this up a few years ago, and had it shot down, because of a
> few poorly substantiated claims of zImage-only machines; those claims
> really need to be debugged since they might indicate A20-related failures.

These beasts are still alive and kicking. I boot a handful of
arm and ppc boards on a frequent basis that are zImage
only.  The kicker is I don't have the bootloader source for
most of them, so changing to a different image format is
tough at best.

Not a vote one way or the other, just some observations
from my day to day.

Bruce


> Anyway...
>
> Can we please kill zImage?  In addition to be completely useless for
> modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders.
>
>         -hpa
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